The Persecution of 20 Dafa Practitioners in Dazu County, Sichuan Province Illustrates the Scale, Severity and Pervasive Nature of the Suppression of Falun Gong

May 25, 2004
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By a Dafa practitioner in Chongqing City

(Clearwisdom.net) As of May 16, 2004, it has been nearly five years
since Jiang Zemin and his followers started to openly persecute Falun Gong
practitioners on July 20, 1999. In order to justify and sustain the persecution,
they have been spreading propaganda against Falun Gong to the people in China,
who are denied access to the facts about Falun Gong. The Head of the "610
Office"* in Dazu County, Sichuan Province has collaborated with Dazu
County's Public Security Bureau in following Jiang's order to persecute Falun
Gong practitioners. They have ransacked Falun Gong practitioners' homes,
extorted their money in the name of fines, thrown them into detention centers
and jails, given them illegal sentences, subjected them to forced brainwashing
programs which used violence and torture, and implicated their families and
relatives in the persecution. They have sent out a large police force to hunt
down Falun Gong practitioners and filled Dazu County with terror.

The following are but a few facts of the persecution against 20 Falun Gong
practitioners in Dazu County, but they illustrate the scale, severity and the
pervasive nature of the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners.

Mr. Li Jian (over 40 years old)

Mr. Li Jian is a college graduate and worked as a section chief at the Dazu
County's Center of Disease Control before the persecution against Falun Gong
began. Mr. Li was sentenced to 18 months in the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp in
November 1999 for traveling to Beijing and appealing on behalf of Falun Gong. He
ended up being incarcerated for 27 months because the staff at Xishanping
detained him for an additional nine months. In February 2002, Mr. Li was
sentenced to another two years in a forced labor camp for clarifying the truth
about Falun Gong, distributing flyers and writing messages on the streets. On
February 16, 2004, Chongqing First Intermediary People's Court sentenced Mr. Li
to 13 years in a forced labor camp. His "crime" was helping to relay
the facts to the world about a policeman from the Baihelin Detention Center in
Shaqu who raped Ms. Wei Xingyan, a graduate student at Chongqing University, in
front of two female prison inmates. Chongqing First Intermediary People's Court
sentenced the five Falun Gong practitioners, including Mr. Li Jian, to long
prison terms on charges of "damaging the image of the Chinese government
and slandering a Chinese government employee" for their righteous action of
exposing the brutal rape.

Ms. Tang Jing (38 years old)

Ms. Tang Jing is from Longshui Town in Dazu County. First, she was sentenced
to a year in the Maojiashan Female Forced Labor Camp in Jiangbei District,
Chongqing. Then the Dazu Criminal Court sentenced her to four years in the
Yongchuan Forced Labor Farm for explaining the facts about the persecution of
Falun Gong, posting and distributing truth-clarification flyers.

Mr. Feng Julun (40 years old)

Mr. Feng Julun is a farmer from Mashi Town of Dazu County. He was sentenced
to one year in the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp, but he ended up being
incarcerated for a total of 21 months because the staff at Xinshanping extended
his term for an additional nine months.

Mr. Liu Shurong (60 years old)

Mr. Liu Shurong is a retired schoolteacher from Longshui Town in Dazu County.
He was sentenced to one year in Xishanping Forced Labor Camp for going to
Beijing and appealing for Falun Gong in October 1999. He ended up being
incarcerated for 20 months because the staff at Xishanping extended his term for
additional eight months. In September 2001, policeman Jiang Jun coerced a person
involved in a non-related criminal case to testify against Mr. Liu Shurong and
caused Mr. Liu to be detained in the Dazu Detention Center for a month. In
February 2002, the Retirement Group at Longshui Town Schoolteacher's Office held
an activity for retired schoolteachers in Longshui Lake. Mr. Luo Wenguang, the
host of the activity, openly attacked Falun Gong at the event, so Mr. Liu stood
up and explained the facts about Falun Gong to his fellow retired
schoolteachers. Mr. Liu was later sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp
for speaking out at the event.

Ms. Zheng Xueqiong (65 years old)

Ms. Zheng Xueqiong is from Longshui Town in Dazu County. She continued to
practice Falun Gong and was sentenced to one year in the Maojiashan Female
Forced Labor Camp for going to Beijing in October 1999 and appealing for Falun
Gong. Fortunately, she was sent home because she didn't pass the physical
examination for the forced labor camp. Ms. Zheng continued to cultivate in Falun
Dafa at home. However, living in an atmosphere of terror had a negative impact
on her health. She was overcome with one sickness after another and passed away
in March 2004.

Mr. Li Liangrui (38 years old)

Mr. Li Liangrui is a farmer from Fulong Town, Dazu County. In 2000, Mr. Li
was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp for going to Beijing and
appealing for Falun Gong. In August 2002, the police abducted him while he was
distributing truth-clarification materials in Youting, Dazu County. He was
sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp.

Mr. Zhao Zhonglu (45 years old)

Mr. Zhao Zhonglu is a farmer from Sanqu Town, Dazu County. In August 2000,
Mr. Zhao was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp for going to Beijing
and appealing for justice for Falun Gong. Then he was sentenced to three years
in a forced labor camp for distributing truth-clarification materials in Youting,
Dazu County.

Mr. Chen Qingbin (26 years old)

Mr. Chen Qingbin is a schoolteacher from Sanqu Town, Dazu County. He went to
Beijing and appealed for Falun Gong in August 2000, and was sentenced to one
year of forced labor.

Mr. Zheng Xuegang (28 years old)

Mr. Zheng Xuegang is a schoolteacher at Sanqu Elementary School from Fulong
Town, Dazu County. He was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp for going
to Beijing and appealing for Falun Gong in August 2000.

Mr. Jiang Zhongliang (62 years old)

Mr. Jiang Zhongliang is a farmer from Hualong Town, Dazu County. He was
sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp in February 2002 for clarifying the
truth about Falun Gong, distributing truth-clarification flyers, and posting a
Chinese couplet saying "Falun Dafa is good" on the door of his home in
2002.

Mr. Yi Tingzhong (61 years old)

Mr. Yi Tingzhong is a retired employee from Panzhihua Steel Company. He was
sentenced to one year of forced labor for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong
and distributing truth-clarification flyers.

Ms. Zhou Zhongxing (60 years old)

Ms. Zhou Zhongxing is a retired schoolteacher from Long'gang Town, Dazu
County. He was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp in October 1999 for
going to Beijing and appealing for Falun Gong. He was sentenced to another year
of forced labor in February 2002 for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and
distributing truth-clarification flyers. However, he ended up being incarcerated
in the forced labor camp for two years because the staff at the forced labor
camp arbitrarily extended his term for another year.

Ms. Liu Hongju (45 years old)

Ms. Liu Hongju is a resident of Longshui Town, Dazu County. She went to
Beijing in October 1999 to appeal for Falun Gong. After she returned home from
the trip, she was imprisoned for over 30 days. In May 2000, Ms. Liu was
sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp for going to Beijing and appealing
for Falun Gong. In May 2002, she was sentenced to another year of forced labor
for explaining the facts about Falun Gong.

Ms. Tang Dayu (55 years old)

Ms. Tang Dayu is a farmer from Mituo Town, Dazu County. She was sentenced to
one year in a forced labor camp for going to Beijing and appealing on behalf of
Falun Gong in 2000.

Ms. Li Kaixiang (45 years old)

Ms. Li Kaixiang is a self-employed small business owner from Longshui Town,
Dazu County. She was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp for clarifying
the truth about Falun Gong and for going to Beijing and appealing for Falun
Gong.

Ms. Yang Huanying (Elderly)

Ms. Yang Huanying is a retired employee residing in Long'gang Town, Dazu
County. She was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp for clarifying the
truth about Falun Gong and distributing truth-clarification flyers.

Ms. Tang Shimin (50 years old)

Ms. Tang Shimin is a farmer in Guihua Village, Longshui Town, Dazu County.
She was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp for clarifying the truth
about Falun Gong.

Ms. Zeng Xiangyun (58 years old)

Ms. Zeng Xiangyun is a resident in Longshui Town, Dazu County. She was
sentenced to one year of forced labor for persistently clarifying the truth
about Falun Gong and for going to Beijing and appealing on behalf of Falun Gong.

Ms. Huang Shuhui

Ms. Huang Shuhui is a schoolteacher at Dazu Junior High School. The local
police arrested her and sentenced her to about one year (exact term to be
verified) in a forced labor camp because she persistently clarified the truth
about Falun Gong to her students at school. It was only after her family paid
the police a lot of money that Ms. Huang was released.

Mr. Yang Tianbao (16 years old)

Mr. Yang Tianbao is a student in Miliang Township, Dazu County. He was
sentenced to one year of forced labor in 2002 for clarifying the truth about
Falun Gong, posting truth-clarification banners, and distributing
truth-clarification flyers.

The above facts are but a few in a long list of persecution against Falun
Gong practitioners in Dazu County by the "610 Office" and the police
in Dazu County, Sichuan Province. These facts are just a sample of the crimes
committed against Falun Gong practitioners, and an ongoing investigation will
undoubtedly uncover more.